A rather good LDS painter ... Minerva Teichert

[_zeezrom]

In my opinion, her stuff sucks. Too much "light on light," for example. Too indistinct, too.

I would like to note that "light on light" still doesn't provide very good evidence that her stuff sucks. It might tell me why you don't like it though... I'm guessing you like heavy contrast? Maybe you would prefer Edouard Manet (Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe)? I recall reading that people complained about his use of contrast. Maybe they even said his stuff sucks.

[_Dr. Shades]

I would like to note that "light on light" still doesn't provide very good evidence that her stuff sucks.

It sucks to me. You might think a movie sucks that your friends don't, for example.

[_Quasimodo]

I would like to note that "light on light" still doesn't provide very good evidence that her stuff sucks. It might tell me why you don't like it though... I'm guessing you like heavy contrast? Maybe you would prefer Edouard Manet (Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe)? I recall reading that people complained about his use of contrast. Maybe they even said his stuff sucks.

How could anyone complain about this:

[_zeezrom]

I would like to note that "light on light" still doesn't provide very good evidence that her stuff sucks.

It sucks to me. You might think a movie sucks that your friends don't, for example.

I knew it Shades. I was being snobbish.

[_Blixa]

I was being snobbish.

No you weren't. You were pointing out how depressing a shallow opinion can be.

[_Dr. Shades]

No you weren't. You were pointing out how depressing a shallow opinion can be.

So, are all opinions in the "dislike" zone shallow?

[_zeezrom]

Let's remind ourselves of Ms Teichert's background.

Started painting at age four; attended the Art Institute of Chicago; received scholarship to the Art Student’s League in New York

Painted Book of Mormon series; covers of LDS magazines; lesson manuals; the World Room in the Manti LDS Temple

Several paintings are displayed in the Museum of History and Art in Salt Lake City and were exhibited in the Immigrant Receiving Station on Ellis Island

[_zeezrom]

As an LDS church missionary she went east with a church group, and she was the first woman to be sent for art lessons with the official blessing of the LDS church leadership. When she arrived in Chicago she studied under John Vanderpoel. She returned home long enough to earn money, and then departed back to Chicago to finish school. When she finished, she returned to Idaho to her own isolated homestead. There she lived by herself and for protection, slept with a revolver under her pillow.

Minerva was courted by two men, one was wealthy and the other was a cowboy, she chose the cowboy whose name was Herman Teichert. She had received a scholarship to the Art Student's League in New York , so before marrying Herman she traveled there to study further. She used various skills to pay her way, such as sketching cadavers for medical schools, illustrating children's books, painting portraits, sharp shooting, and performing rope tricks and Indian dances on the New York stage. Some of her paintings were exhibited in the Immigrant Receiving Station on Ellis Island.

When Minerva returned to Utah she married Herman. She kept books for the ranch, cooked for the hands of the farm, raised five children, and painted. She used her narrow living room as her studio. To get a correct perspective view of her paintings, she looked at her work through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. She would send her children to bed around 8, and paint until midnight. She loved to paint the western wilderness and she used human figures and work animals as her most common subjects. Women are also prominent in her work. She is truly an amazing Utah woman!

http://www.families.utah.gov/Teichert.pdf

[_Polygamy-Porter]

Light cotton on light cotton..

[_zeezrom]